I “keyed in ” on that one also. Scientology again so out of step with current values.

Compare her face to Emily Green’s face. That is what happens to children who are given to the S.O. at an early age.

What a tragedy!

Good idea. Thanks so much and Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas!

You’re welcome, Cindy. Whatever you have to give them does not have to be swallowed up by the cult. You can manage this – you can control – if you’ll forgive my phrasing it this way – you can control it all from the grave, IF you have to. Hopefully you won’t have to 🙂 Get a good, anti-cult lawyer or estate planner. Someone on Tony’s blog would probably be glad to refer someone you could trust.

Aqua, there was no reply comment on your last comment so that’s why I’m answering here instead of there. Thanks for the suggestion re a Trust. I’ll look into it. Of course I don’t have “millions” to be talking about, but anything I have I would like it if they could use it for education and NOT give it to the church. If the church knew I did this, they would be all over the kids to say that their “training” on the PTS/SP course qualified as life training and they’d try to get it that way. But I”ll ask around and see how this could possibly be set up. Thanks.

You’re welcome, Cindy. I’ve read your posts and know what you’re up against. Understood on all you’ve said. What you could do is set up a trust for them that they could ONLY receive if they spent it on getting themselves trained and/or educated for something – for this purpose only. The trust would pay the tuition or whatever directly, and then dribble into their accounts living expenses. Otherwise the cult will get the money.

I can’t name names now but I know an ED of an Org whose very devout long term Scn husband is an heir to an incredible fortune. He and she are on an allowance from the estate – a generous one to be sure, but an allowance in no uncertain terms. They live very well but nowhere approaching the style they could be living in if they had direct access to the family fortune. His (possibly late – I’m not sure if this is a living trust or not) family set up a very complicated trust for him. They KNEW that if they didn’t the cult would very quickly get all of it.

Not to infer that you’re in that financial league at all but if you do have something to leave them this concept of having them get what you do have might be useful, whether your demise would occur before or after they get out. If you’re worried about passing away before they’re out, just knowing the contents of your will ahead of time might (who knows) prove an incentive for them to leave. Just an idea.

Thank you Aquamarine. Your words mean a lot to me. IF or when the kids cognite and get out of Scn, yes I”ll help them all I can to make that transition out, to get a skill, or education, to be able to function. I just hope for their sakes that I’m alive to do all this when they finally get out.

OMG…omg. I would have eaten that up too when I was a kid. As a matter of fact I ate up the love-bombing I was given as a fully grown adult public. Ate it up.

Wow. I’m so sorry, Cindy.

And when you got into the cult all you wanted was to do better in life, to be your best and to help others be their best, inclusive of – especially inclusive of your own children.

I’m so sorry. The only brite note in this tragedy is if and/or when they somehow, in some way wake up and leave, they have you to fund some courses for them to take to make them employable.

Some believe that to be the number in Australia alone. Whilst on a job at the Melbourne org i asked a worker how many Scientoliegists are in Australia, he responded with “their would be millions”.

Millions being plural and Australia only having 25 million people, this young, poor guy believes at minumum 8% of Australia are Scientoliegists, a huge exageration is a understatement considering ive not once come accross a Scientologist other than those in the org and ive lived in Melbourne all my life. His figure would put it at worst the 2nd biggest religion in Australia and at best the overwhelming most popular. A great example of how scewed thinking can be when you live in a bubble.